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Private property

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Assigning an object to a person with authority over its use and disposal within the relevant system. The article draws on Locke’s philosophical account of its origins and separates identifying the decision-maker from evaluating their judgement; it offers no country-specific legal definition.

Does Owning Something Permit Us to Waste It?Source cited by the article